Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.